DfE Attendance toolkit for schools

"I first devised the idea of an attendance hub because of my feeling that there were schools in similar circumstances facing similar challenges, but they were not effectively sharing what is working for them. We now have thirty-one hubs bringing together two thousand schools. In my role as the Government's Attendance Ambassador, I have worked with the Department for Education to go a step further to spread promising practice, by working with attendance hubs and other schools to develop this toolkit." 

Rob Tarn, CBE National Attendance Ambassador and CEO of Northern Education Trust. 

Schools can now access an attendance toolkit developed in collaboration with Rob Tarn, National Attendance Ambassador, and attendance hub leads. It helps schools identify drivers of absence and adopt effective practice to improve attendance. It provides practical resources across six areas; data and targeted support, culture, people, processes and systems, relationships and communications.  

Mainstream secondary schools can now also download an attendance summary report on the monitor your school attendance service. 

The report is specific to each school and summarises: 

• overall attendance and persistent absence compared with national averages 
• attendance for different pupil groups compared with the national average and previous academic year 
• pupils in 5% absence bands, by year group 

To download your report: 

1. Log into View your education data (VYED) using DfE Sign-in credentials. 
2. Select 'Monitor your school attendance'. 
3. Select 'Your attendance summary'.